Extrinsic motivation forces are external factors that inspire an individual to improve performance within an organization, such as earning a salary or achieving job security. Intrinsic motivation are the self-empowered personal motivations that inspire an individual to improve in an organization based on their own personal goals, such as a desire to do good work or uphold personal responsibilities. For instance, you can assess Herzsberg's Two Factor sociological theory in association with organizational theory and research the potential benefits of using these motivators within an organization.
Open systems theory is built on the idea that no system exists independent from other systems and through the study of external influences, you can learn about how your system relates to others, the influences that lead to success for your system and understand your responsibility as a system. Research the impact of open systems theory on your company, focusing on its environmental and economic impacts on other systems and the impact of those systems on your company's organizational theory. As an example, research your organization's reliance on external supplies or the responsibility of your organization to work in conjunction with external systems.
Organizational ethics exist within every organizational theory, dictating how ethical breaches are addressed and how ethics dictates your organization's decision making process. Research your company's organizational ethics and whether there is a history of upholding those ethics. Determine how ethics affect the successful or failed ethical approaches in your company's history. For example, you can perform a case study using a few specific situations where employee actions caused ethical breaches and research how your company approached those breaches.
Individuals, within an organization, grow and develop from their first day. Bela Benathy developed a system of development that studied the ways that individuals develop within a system. She explained that development occurs philosophically, theoretically, methodologically and through the process of application. Discuss Benathy's development theory as it pertains to your organization's development cycle. As an example, determine how your organization trains employees, based on Benathy's development theory, and how quickly individuals move from their earliest developmental stage to later stages to assess whether your organizational theory supports or hinders individual development.